Beata Mytych-Forajter’s text The Story of Doctor Dolittle — ecocritical reading is
an attempt to reinterpret a children’s literature classic by using tools related with posthumanistically
orientated literary studies. The title hero of the English novel series was
a fictional answer to existential experience of powerlessness in the face of silent suffering
of animals participating in the battles of the first World War. His character, emphasizing
completely anti-anthropocentric hierarchy of values and anti-consumptionism, seems to
match perfectly the demands of pragmatically oriented ecocriticism
